With proliferation of TV and internet, people in the remotest village are aware of the finer points of all popular sports and games; budding athletes hone their skills by watching TV and YouTube. Sports academies that teach shooting, wrestling, boxing etc. have proliferated in the hinterlands, bringing millions of not-so-rich boys and girls into the sporting mainstream. Big bucks in sports are an added incentive. With such a vast pool of talent, and the considerable monetary incentives, Indian sportspersons are beginning to be noticed internationally
more uncertain that they ll be able to pull off an event or not. he s not the only one who has noticed. the international olympic committee, or ioc, recently announcing it is postponing setting venue for the 2030 winter olympics, citing concerns over climate change, and needsing to take more time to study all of these factors and opportunities to make the best possible decisions about future hosting. dr. daniel scott of the university of waterloo took a look at how climate change could impact the winter games. it is not just location. it is also about athlete safety. even when you have reliable temperatures to make the snow, you have to look at daily temperatures when the competitions are happening, it is well above freezing, you get those conditions that are really beginning to become dangerous for the athletes. in all of the different snow sports, in different ways. with climate change in mind, the ioc will use a different,
say some looking on. translation: | think sports . are sports and they shouldn t be messed with politics. the games belong to everyone and we should all participate and watch. politics is just politics. this is the official slogan of the games. and these children are singing about it in this propaganda video, released last month by the government in xinjiang, a place where china denies it s committed genocide. a former olympian, who s close to america s athletes this time, told me why some of them are nervous about sharing this moment. i had one athlete tell me that they ve had nothing in the lead up to these olympics they ve had not a single meeting about athletic performance. every meeting they ve had has been either about covid protocols are about athlete safety, personal safety and bruising in
time told me why some of them are nervous about sharing this moment. i had one athlete tell me that they ve had nothing in the lead up to these olympics they ve had not a single team meeting about sport and their athletic performance. every meeting they ve had has been either about covid protocols or about athlete safety, personal safety in beijing. i don t think a single athlete is going to speak out at the games and nor do i think they should. if i were there i would be keeping my mouth shut because the risk is just too great. and this is really a failure of the international olympic committee. it s a failure of leadership that athletes are in this position. in many ways, this looks like a normal olympic games. there are updated rules in place to allow athletes to express their concerns away from the tracks, slopes, rinks and podiums. but what is always a cold gathering feels much more frosty this time round. this is a games defined by the big fissure on the world stage, with c